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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 11h

He knows he has to work on his PR, he's no dummy

Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 11h

This is the political story of the US right now. Dem leadership continues to be the Null Set - silent as elevator farts at the Capitol

Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 15h

Extraordinary that in this entire article, the Democrats just do not appear. And that's not unfair of the author or the Journal!
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear

Recent moves by the president reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his agenda.

www.wsj.com

Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 11h

Appeals court justices www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Appeals court judges publicly admonish Supreme Court justices: ‘We’re out here flailing’

“They’re leaving the circuit courts, the district courts out in limbo,” one judge said during appeals court oral arguments that turned into a venting session about the high court’s terse emergency rul...

www.politico.com

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 11h

There was something like that a week or two ago. I can't remember where I read it, but a group of I believe lower court fed judges officially complained. Let me see if I can find that

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 13h

They didn’t even mention that Schumer ditched the papa Smurf glasses - the biggest thing out of his office in years

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 1d

"Essay" 😎- yeah, in the sense of 'attempt', a failed one

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 1d

So sayeth the Claremont Institute. Hello fellow kids

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Andy Churnwell @churnwell.bsky.social · 2d

Sir Keir's Bill Clinton moment: "Yes, I've accessed saucy images before, but let me be clear: I have never in my life 'had a wank'."

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

“The language marches in step with the executioners.
Therefore we must get a new language.”

Tomas Transtromer

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly!

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 2d

He has good lyrics but I don't think he's 1 of the greatest lyricists - but 1 of the greatest songwriters, yes. IMO his gifts are exemplified by "I Wish" -a groove that's so deep it's emotionally healing & a religious experience - and he himself said the lyrics were not commensurate. But, tall order

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 2d

"On Monday, I offhandedly joked that all of the ads during football were for AI or schizophrenia medications. If you never watch live broadcasts, you may have thought this a literary flourish referencing our increasingly Philip K Dickian timeline. But no!" www.argmin.net/p/henry-was-...

Henry Was Right

OpenAI selling the world as a mumblecore adaptation of Philip K Dick

www.argmin.net

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 3d

Over 30 years I've been buying their shit, taking their shit, but this is it. I have bought my last iPhone, and will migrate away on desktop. Fuck these guys, and fuck Tim apple very much.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 3d

For so many reasons, it's time to get out of Apple's garden. Leaving is not something that can be done overnight, but really, fuck these people. Fuck Tim Apple

404 Media @404media.co · 3d

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 3d

I agree, but what do you suggest? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm really asking. What will the CPD do? Probably they will side with
Trump. Very dangerous

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3d

“In the middle of life, death comes
to take your measurements. The visit
is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit
is being sewn on the sly.”

Tomas Tranströmer, The Deleted World

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 3d

End of a thread. Gonna lose it with these non-specific calls to action.

Blue state governors and legislators can create their own militias / guards, they can pay people to document ICE, they can work with local governments to shut off water, electricity and transport for ICE facilities.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

We must all stand up and speak out.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 4d

This thread highlights a point I have been making for many years: the logic of authoritarianism and the logic of domestic abuse are exactly the same. It is only a difference of scale.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, and anyway, someone did hand Yglesias a big bag of money.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 4d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 4d

Is that what @nytimes.com wants? Judging from their editorial line in the last several years, the answer is an obvious 'yes'

Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 4d

We already knew this is true, but many Dems don't want to face that Biden is at least as guilty as Trump (more guilty in terms of opportunity costs) and belongs in The Hague no less than DT. No, he's not a 'good man'. He's just less vulgar about being evil (but isn't everyone?)

A cartoon rendering of Biden's face and hands - hands dripping with blood

Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 5d

He has judgement, & I think people really respond to that beyond transactional stuff. He has thought issues through, so when he's asked a 'controversial' question, he not only has an answer, but a *good* answer, one that turns the hostile question back at the opponent, into an offensive weapon.

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Same Great aroma, more Real, buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.social · 5d

I agree but don't think it has to be someone younger. It's what they say. Dems are always so literal about Man/woman young/old, black/white etc. Mamdani succeeded so well not just b/c he's young, but b/c: a.) he asked people what they really care about, and ran on that. B.) He didn't weasel.

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